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Make note of the first named inventor, and assign his name to memory. He figures in a dispatch, with some uncertain implications, to follow in coming days.
We've documented, and will further document, Germany's development of Coal liquefaction technology leading up to WWII, which resulted in multiple Axis synthetic fuel production facilities in the Coal-producing regions of occupied Europe and Asia becoming high-priority strategic targets of Allied bombing.
As should be apparent from the records we've been able so far to provide, our US Government was, in fact, well-aware of Germany's growing Coal-to-Liquid fuel capability.
Via the enclosed US Patent, it should had to have been clear to our Government that Japan, as well, was able to convert, not just Coal, but also waste gases arising from the use of Coal, into liquid fuels.
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Although there is no corporate assignee named for this United States Patent, we believe the inventors, as we have from other sources previously documented, to have been associated with the Union Carbide Coal hydrogenation plant, about which we've reported, that once operated in South Charleston, WV.
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We have previously cited United States Patents issued to German inventors in the years immediately prior to World War II, suggesting that the Axis powers were, in fact, telegraphing their synthetic fuels punch: their capability of manufacturing liquid fuels efficiently from Coal that became, as we've documented, a topic of great strategic importance for the Allied Command.
Herein is yet another of those prewar German Coal liquefaction technologies, one which echoes and reinforces a fact that we have, from latter-day United States sources, lately been documenting:
The Hydrogen needed to hydrogenate Coal, which is composed primarily of Carbon, in order to synthesize Hydrocarbons suitable for refining into replacements for common petroleum products, can be efficiently generated within the overall Coal conversion process through the interaction of specific metals, and salts of those metals, with Water.
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Yesterday, we sent you information concerning: "United States Patent 7,378,561 - Method for Producing ... Hydrocarbons from ... Air; May, 2008; Inventor: George Olah; University of Southern California".
Herein, we present yet another United States Patent awarded to Nobel Laureate Olah, and colleagues, at the University of Southern California, only months later, for advances on the technologies that would, if implemented, allow us to recycle atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and, literally, make liquid fuel out of thin air.
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In confirmation of other authoritative references we've cited, the United States Patent herein enclosed reveals, yet again, that a process for converting Coal into Gasoline, and into other fuels and valuable chemicals, can, if properly designed, be powered entirely by the Coal used as the raw material for the conversion.
In other words: We can make Gasoline out of Coal; and, we don't need much of anything but Coal to do so.
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